International Dialogue Symposium

On November 9, 2016 Networks 4 Change held one of its key meetings with participants from Canada, South Africa, and the United States, the International Dialogue Symposium, at McGill

University. Co-sponsored by McGill and the Girls Action Foundation, this one day event preceded the National Women’s Studies Association held in Montreal, with the theme of decoloniality.

This pre-conference ‘community building’ event facilitated dialogue between key stakeholders and partners working in the area of sexual violence, along with a number of young women themselves who will speak about critical issues related to violence and leadership.

There were three panel discussions featured during this event, exploring the complexity of and learnings from working across varied geographic locations, the critical issues in addressing sexual violence, and the progress of the project up to this point.